areas came under the control of church, kings and queens prompting merchants to venture farther from their villages. Commercial activities increased and merchants ventured into new territories as trade routes began to slowly reopen. The Grand Tour Era was an outcome of heightened awareness of the educational benefits to be gained from travel as a result of the desire to learn from and experience other cultures. The Grand Tour Era Intense luxurious travel and tourism activities initiated by the wealthy English which soon spread and assumed fashionable dimension among other individuals with time and money marked The Grand Tour Era (1613-1785). Experience and the knowledge gained by these travels, assumed the dimension of status symbol the eventual in …show more content…
The new found wanderlust of the working and middle classes in industrialized countries were given the financial means and the time to satisfy. The 21st century offered most workers in virtually all industrialized nations ???????????? . World War II (Which ended in 1945) was succeeded by an additional boost to mass tourism, serving in a variety of military assignments, 17 million Canadian and U.S. citizens along with millions of people throughout the world were exposed to many new, different and even exotic locations during this war. Many people who had never traveled before were forced to do so by being in Military service, once back at home with family and friends they were eager to share their positive experiences. Several other factors helped to encourage the growth of tourism after the end of II World
The enlightenment period was full of social and intellectual growth. This time period changed the way people thought of the world and exposed the world to different cultures. It brought the world into several revolutions that will later contribute to great change for the modern world. Travel was significant during the enlightenment due to the enlightenment ideas that knowledge and information was gained through experience. In order for the people to get a better understanding of the world and gain information about other cultures, they had to travel to these people. During this era and time period of the enlightenment, travel was significant in order to get a quality and endless education. Denis Diderot shows the significance that travel did
The Renaissance, which began in Italy in the 1300s, was one of the largest periods of growth and development in Western Europe. Navigation was no longer limited to traveling about by land. Large fleets of ships were constructed, and great navigational schools, the best founded by Prince Henry the Navigator in Portugal, were founded. People were no longer tied to the lands they lived on, as they were in medieval times. They were freer to learn new skills and travel. These enabled people to go further than they had before. Fleets of ships were sent to the Eastern world to bring back treasures and valuable spices. Routes to Asia were traveled beginning in the early Renaissance.
This period was a time of expansion, distant trade, and most importantly the development of knowledge and education. One of the most import...
They were strong in the Italian cities they did more trading, people were more wealthy and people had more education. during this time people started to really open up their minds and see what others had in mind. To see the real beauty in art to look into other cultures and religions. Exploring the seas and sailing to other continents became very popular during this era. Sailers had more instruments, maps, and the ships were built so that their ships could last longer on their long journeys. Portugues navigators started to explore which they brought gold and ivory home. Then later they discovered that sailing around the southern tip of Africa would bring them to India and Asia. Those places had offered spices, nice clothing, and silk. Explores had brought those things home and sold them to richer European families.
People today can take more trips for fun to see friends and relatives who live far away more often because of the quick travel options we now have. This was not possible in the past.
For the introduction, brief information regarding my purchase and the travel and tourism industry is presented. It was then followed by the explanation of the 2 chosen theories from two different chapters.
In this industry society has seen technological developments along side the changing consumer needs over the past forty years to produce today's huge consumer needs demands for leisure and recreation products and services. However in the 1940's people were restricted to what was available due to the war so people just undertook home based leisure activities such as reading play games listening to the radio at this time all of these activities where very popular, after the war the leisure industry began to develop. Another factor that took a toll on the industry was that people were restricted to what they could do in their leisure time. - Not many people had personal transport - Cleaning the house took longer which consumed up more time - People were limited to holidays and free time - Not many people could afford to spend their income on leisure However 50 years later there have been some major changes in the way
On peut voir aujourd’hui le grand changement de perspectif à-propos de la tour Eiffel. Aussi le grand changement de visiteurs, maintenait dans les millions. La tour est répliquée tout autour du monde et connu par presque toutes. A cause des reproductions de toutes sortes, la tour est l’un des objets les plus populaires du monde. La tour Eiffel est multipliée à l’infini sous les formes les plus variées. Objets d’art, souvenirs ou création originales, on en trouve dans le monde entier.
An account of a grand tour observation. Grand tour observations refer to the rich description of a social situation (Spradley, 1980). The social situation for this research is people at the library. To prepare for the grand tour observation, the researcher was driven by the following questions: “who are the people at the library?” , “what are the things people do at the library?”, and “what things are available at the library?”.
arduous travel by land and sea. It was no unexpected that they never return. Travel during those days was filled with danger. Today we take travelling far distances for granted. The risks are negligible. People are more concerned about whether they travel first-class or economy.
Tourism is a typical activity of fashion that the public participate widely and it has grown in importance over recorded human history. Innumerable articles refer tourism as “the world’s largest industry”; policy-makers, analysts, and scholars often speak of the size of the tourism compared to that of other industries (Smith 2004: 26). These series of misleading statement, together with the mass media’s reports (out of context), make the idea that tourism is a single large industry branded into many people’s minds. However, in this essay I will demonstrate that it is a simplistic and misleading idea, which should be replaced by the plural term, “tourism industries”. Moreover, tourism is not the world’s largest industry, but largest service sector.
During the past few decades, traveling has greatly increased. Purposes of travel vary, some travel for business, some for leisure,
This essay is the respond to the Local Council Member who has wrong idea about a common archetype of adventure tourist. This misconception based on ignorance of current tourism industry, could potentially be a dangerous for local economy and development. The local authority must be well informed about present conditions with the tourism market, before they will make a far reaching decisions about the development direction in this industry. Currently, there are many organisations whose monitoring an international tourism business and this knowledge supposed to be good use for our common good.
Based on McIntosh and friends (1995) tourism is a phenomenon and relationship that exists due to interaction between tourist, businessman, government and community as the host in process attract tourist and foreign tourism. Indirectly, this definition clarified tourism is visit or travel to another place within yesterday, aimed amused, rested, traded and so on. In fact, there are four key that related in
The issue is whether the traveling time that miners take to get to the face of the mine counts as working time under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The State of Confusion should adopt the majority’s opinion and hold travel time as work time. This position held that because the workers were under employer supervision, physical exertion was involved because they are performing a service, and the worker is doing this work to benefit the employer travel time should count as worktime. Lunch time does not count as worktime because the employee is not supervised and it is for their benefit, by contrast travel time is worktime because there is supervision, it is not the employees own time, and it is for